GUARDED LIKE THE TSAR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 5

GUARDED LIKE THE TSAR.

y VICEROY OF INDIA AT CALCUTTA.

POLICE PRECAUTIONS.

By Ti'lrsraph—Pr-c;s Assooiation^-CoDyrlßM

London, Deten'bei 2P - 'A,..Rculcrpniessagoi-froir. '■ Calcutta states...'that?there.-is much discussion there at' tho,. remarkable piccautions which : wero : organised by the police on the octaSion of I.ord Hardiisge's visit. Xo functions wore held, and crowds wero not allowed to congregate in tho streets during the procession 1 Only officials wore admitted to How* 'rail Station wlie:i the train departed. Tiie railway was guarded, for a hundred miles, police standing four feet apart, bearing torches. Tho general public did 1 not havo a glimpse of the Viceroy. THE NEXT VICEROY. : "Times"- .Sydney "Sim" Special Cables. (Rec. Derember 29, 6.10 p.m.) " London, December 28. Tho special correspondent of tho "Times' 1 at Cairo states that he has the best authority for declaring that Viscount Kitchener, British Minister in Egypt, will assume tho Vice-Royalty of India in t-ho .near future. . Although fabulous rewards and the vigilance of a ceeret service unequalled even by that.conducted by the ei-Sultan Abdul Harnid of Turkey hove utterly failed to detect the men who very nearly killed Viceroy of India ElxWt a year ago, the increased vigilance of tho East .Indian police has led to discoveries which, to say tho least, show; that, though tho Hisdtis borrowed the institution o£ political murder from the Occident only six or seven years ago, th®y havo organised the propaganda tu assassinate British officials so ingeniously that they can give clubs and spades to Western revolutionists and still heat them at the gome of terrorism.

i'lirs most astonishing- detail worked out by the Bast Indian anarchists is the method they have adapted to fill the war treasury, Groups .of Hindu nihilists go into the_ village of Bengal—whirfi this political crime originated, and where it has remained most Active—enter the houses of wealthy landlords (zemindars, as they are called), tc-rroriso tho men at the points of revolvers and daggers, and make the iromen give them all their gold and silver ornaments and show, them where the family fortune is buried in tha earth. Usually they carry on thesis depredations in the dead of nJjjht, with their foeej masked, though some of theso plundering operations (dacoity) have been carried on in broad daylight. Tho two most curious things about these robberies are: (1) That all _ tho money thus obtained is used in waging war against the British; and (2) that only young men with college education, who Would be considered among us to belong _to the most resneelablo stratum of fiociety, and who would be regarded in Biiglaftd ns the sons of tho gentry, engage in the looting.